Gregory Nnamdi Nnabike Mbajiorgu (born 24 May 1964) is a Nigerian Associate Professor of Theatre and Film Studies of the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
[1][2][3] He is a playwright, poet, and established mono dramatist who had solo-performed his first play The Prime Minister's Son, many times both inside and outside of Nigeria.
[9][1][2] In 1991, Greg Mbajiorgu went for the compulsory National Youth Service Corps programmer, serving at NYSC Secretariat, Calabar.
[1][2][14] Faced with multi-facetted pressures during his NYSC programme in 1991, some of which were a desire to prove to his father that theatre arts was his passion and not mass communication which his father wanted him to study as a postgraduate course; and, the lack of enthusiasm in his fellow NYSC theatre graduates to team up with him to start a performing company, he scripted his first play, The Prime Minister's Son,[12] which brought him into prominence in solo dramaturgy as one of the first dramatists to publish a solo play in Africa.
In 1997, he wrote a playlet, Trial of the Fittest, which was performed at the Bridge Water Hotel, Enugu, for the end-of-year retreat of the African Institute for Applied Economics, AIAE.
[1][2][16] In 2009, Greg Mbajiorgu wrote a short version of the work, Wake Up Everyone (later published in 2011) to analyze the challenges of climate in Nigeria as a commissioned play for African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), Nairobi, Kenya.
[17] In 2023, he edited the 420-page book, The Power of One: An Anthology of Nigerian Solo Plays, which comprises sixteen works, including his The Prime Minister’s Son and, The Gadfly by Ahmed Yerima.